Market Data Cost Reduction

MMG Partners has unprecedented results in helping major banks reduce their spending on Market Data Services without compromising effectiveness. Our intimate knowledge of market data products and services, along with our extensive collection of market data benchmarks based on years of prior work, give us significant advantages in optimizing our clients' market data spend.

Coupled with our proprietary software analysis, these advantages allow us to eliminate inefficiencies and reallocate market ata spend without any loss of functionality. The resulting savings typically range between 20-35%.

Cost reduction techniques include "smart" usage analysis tools, developed
in-house, that register all functions accessed by users of Bloomberg, Reuters, and other market data product
terminals and highlight those functions not being utilized.

A large proprietary database of industry information is used to provide our clients
with up-to-date fair and accurate benchmarks.

Vast experience in all areas of the securities industry gives us knowledge of the business operations
and data requirements for all areas in investment banking as well as on the trading
floor and in asset management.

Broad product knowledge allows us to match user requirements with market data products that are both
comprehensive and cost effective to slash market data costs.

With a bottom-up analysis approach, we spend time at the desk level to ensure that our solution is truly
comprehensive for all users, while also providing key overall metrics and analysis for
entire divisions.

Focus on providing effective tools for users to successfully conduct their work by optimizing and consolidating terminal usage, instead
of exclusively on reducing costs.

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Clients care about providing the right kind of market data to their people, to allow them to work most
effectively. Our proprietary "smart" capture tool has been pivotal in providing a clear view
of what Bloomberg and Reuters functions are being used consistently by traders, salespeople, and other
staff, allowing us to accurately assess individual users market data product needs.

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We provide clients with a clear plan to navigate the complex market data service offerings, and as a result,
have been able to achieve significant savings (40-50%) while retaining or improving the quality of market data
provided to users by our cost reduction strategies.